To the 100th anniversary of birth of Georgy Antonovich Gamov

Abstract

GEORGY ANTONOVICH GAMOV (b. March 4, 1904, Odessa, Ukraine, d. Aug. 19, 1968, Boulder, U.S), physicist and cosmologist who was one of the foremost advocates of the big-bang theory, according to which the universe was formed in a colossal explosion billions of years ago. In addition, his work on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) made a basic ontribution to modern genetic theory.